China Airlines Ltd (CAL,
The report -- in the Chinese-language Liberty Times, the Taipei Times' sister newspaper -- quoted a source described as close to a private pro-independence group, which visited the airline on Friday.
The group, the "908 Taiwan Republic Campaign," visited CAL's headquarters in Taipei on Friday, and asked the carrier to decide on a timeframe in which to get rid of the term "China" from its title, the sources said.
The group threatened to hold a protest rally if the airline does not rename itself.
Wait and see
According to the report, an unnamed airline official responded with a Chinese-language idiom, "shimuyidai (拭目以待)," which roughly translates as "rub the sand from your eyes and anxiously await what happens."
Pro-independence activists have long demanded that state-run enterprises, such as Chinese Petroleum Corp (
Discussions
Chen has reportedly asked CAL to take action on the issue, and the airline has discussed a name change during internal meetings and decided to make the change the next time Chen boards an aircraft to travel abroad, the source said. But CAL officials haven't disclosed exactly what the change will be, citing commercial secrecy, the report said.
Former CAL chairman Chiang Yao-chung (
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